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exotica-digest         Thursday, March 4 1999         Volume 02 : Number 338



In This Digest:

(exotica) Schlager
Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER
(exotica) San Francisco: opportunity to hear music
(exotica) another Springfield obit
(exotica) Trade
(exotica) news: DVD-Audio format
(exotica) Fantastica JJ Perrey special on www.xtabay.com
Re: (exotica) news: DVD-Audio format
RE: (exotica) news: DVD-Audio format
Re: (exotica) SOUNDPROOF date??
Re: (exotica) Ma(i)s Que Nada
Re: (exotica) Wives and Lovers
Fwd: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER
Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER
(exotica) Atlas, Simmons, Springfield obits
(exotica) news: DVD-Audio format
(exotica) Hey, NY!
Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER
(exotica) Dion McGregor on WNYC
Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER
(exotica) Martinis With Mancini Playlist. 3/4/99
(exotica) Re: Fantastica MP3 file

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:00:59 -0500
From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Schlager

Charles wrote:
> After all the talk about schlager this morning, I feel like I've had an
> education. I always thought Schlager meant whipped cream and denoted sickly
> sweet music. We live and learn.
Yes, thanks to Moritz for the details. Since it was through Moritz
and the gang at AtaTak that  I first heard about Schlager in the first
place, I'm confident we're getting it from a reliable source!

Peter wrote:
> I just found out that Caterina Valente and Roy Budd are (were?)
> married. Do/did they make sweet music together?
While we're on the Schlager subject many may not know Caterina
Valente made some fine records in German  including an expert
version of the song "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini"
in German, under the name "Club Honolulu" as well a some more
straightforward material in the style of say Connie Francis or Doris Day
and I think some even more serious yet.  But... mix that with Roy Budd
and I'd say musically not a bad match!  Don't know if they ever performed
together but she did a lot of singing with I think her brother under the
group Caterina & Silvio.

Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
Montreal, Canada


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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:29:10 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER

In a message dated 03/03/99 11:21:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< As someone who is in the "any release of this music is fine by me" camp,
I'm
 looking forward to the Tiki Sampler for the music, and yes also for the
 packaging. >>

My point is this:  When I heard Leopard Skin Sampler the first time I could
see how the music would have a varied "Lounge" theme (Exotica included).  When
lots of folks on the List heard "Tiki Sampler" we discussed the hopeful event
that this would be new (i.e. cuts not already available on released UL CDs)
and material directly related to Exotica/Tiki.

To those of us wishing for something new this is a disappointment.  And don't
think that I don't enjoy the UL series.  I have all but a few of them.  I just
don't know if I need a sampler of music I already have.

Let's look at if differently.  When the Vols 1-12 were relatively new and you
could buy the Sampler to see which ones you want that was great.  Vols 13 thru
whatever have been out for almost 2 years now.  For me at least, this was done
backwards.  And while UL can release whatever they want and call it whatever
they want I think "Leopard Skin Sampler Number II" would have been more
appropriate.

With the notice of "Look for a Tiki Sampler" being out for close to a year now
I was hoping for a more Tiki/Exotica oriented CD.

Of course I was also the one that FROM THE MOMENT THEY ANNOUNCED A TIKI
SAMPLER suspected (and voiced at this forum) that it would probably be a
continuation of the Leopard Skin Sampler idea and include no new music.
UL/Capitol did not disappoint us (or did they?).

Robert


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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 11:55:12 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) San Francisco: opportunity to hear music

Sound Annex.

For those of you who want to get out and hear some music of the ilk
discussed here, I'll be DJ-ing at 563 Second St (btw Brannan and Bryant at
Deboom Alley, close to Montgomery Station) in San Francisco.

The date is this Saturday, March 6. Doors Open 8p, Music 9p, You Leave 1a.

The music will be all over the map, with many stops in the lands of Now!,
Brit. Swinging Scene, and Brazil, likely with brief layovers in the
airports of Jazz, Soundtracks (to the lives of the stars), and Electronic
Music from the 40s to the 90s. Bring no luggage and you won't have any
luggage to lose; leave your baggage with your shrink.

Cover is $5 (inside, you'll find 1$ drafts) with proceeds going to support
Annex, an artist-initiated exhibition. (Annex: Twenty artists will show
work of their choice in enclosed units of differing sizes at California
Mini-Storage in SF. More info on Annex at the event.)

3 bands (Applesaucer, The Giraffe had a Voice, and Shantigs) will also be
playing. I have no idea what any of them sound like. It think they are
mostly of the guitar/bass/drums variety. I will be playing before, after,
and between sets. It'll be a good time.

Say hi if you show up.

Clark


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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 15:27:56 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) another Springfield obit

   LONDON, March 3 (AFP) - British 1960s singer Dusty Springfield died late
Tuesday after a long battle against cancer, her agent said.
   Paul Fenn said the 59-year-old died at her home in Henley-on-Thames, near
Oxford, west of London. The singer had been fighting breast cancer since it
was diagnosed in 1994.
   Springfield achieved huge chart success in the 1960s, starting with her
debut and most famous single "I Only Want to Be With You" and clocking up 17
hits throughout the decade along with a series of acclaimed albums.
   She was awarded the title of Officer of Order of the British Empire (OBE)
in January this year while being treated in hospital.
   A spokesman for Queen Elizabeth II said the sovereign was "saddened to
hear of her death so soon after she was awarded an OBE".
   Other figures from the music business around the world paid tribute.
   Elton John said from America that Springfield was "the best white British
female singer to come along at the time ... as good a singer as Aretha
Franklin ... completely timeless".
   Fellow 1960s star Cilla Black, a friend for many years, said: "She was an
incredible artist. I'm very sad and deeply shocked."
   The Pet Shop Boys, with whom Springfield collaborated at the end of her
career, called her Britain's "greatest female singer".
   Springfield was born Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien in north
London on April 16, 1939.
   She changed her name when she teamed up with her brother Tom in the folk
trio The Springfields in the early 1960s and they had several significant hits.
   But they split after seeing The Beatles at the Cavern in Liverpool. "We
saw the writing on the wall," she said.
   A visit to Nashville at that time gave her the musical edge on her
contemporaries, and she began her solo career with "I Only Want To Be With
You" in 1964.
   It was the first record to be played on the BBC's new youth music
programme "Top Of The Pops" and its Motown sound took it to number four in
the charts.
   Throughout the mid-1960s Dusty Springfield's husky soulful style was
rarely out of the hit parade.
   Springfield was known for her glitzy gowns, peroxide-blonde beehive and
panda-like eye make-up, which she achieved by leaving her caked-up mascara
on for three weeks at a time.
   The image was almost a parody, dreamed up by the convent girl to appear
simultaneously attractive and unthreatening.
   "It was a good thing to hide behind. Without the mask I was a quivering
wreck. I was terribly shy," she said later.
   Unusually for a woman singer of the time, she insisted on heavy
involvement in production and gained a reputation for being "difficult".
   Eventually Springfield was eclipsed by the advent of a growing taste for
rock after 1967.
   She left Britain in 1970 and lived in Los Angeles for more than 15 years
before returning in the late 1980s. During this time she recorded with
numerous US artists, releasing one of her most famous tracks "Son of a
Preacher Man".
   During her time in the United States, she brought herself low by years of
drink and drugs.
   After returning to Britain in semi-retirement, she had a hit in a duet
with the Pet Shop Boys singing "What Have I Done to Deserve This?"
   The success brought her a new generation of followers, especially in the
gay community, where she became an icon.
   She recorded her most recent album "A Very Fine Love" in 1994 shortly
before her cancer was diagnosed. She underwent extensive chemotherapy until
1995, when she was diagnosed as being clear of the disease.
   However, the following year the cancer returned.





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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 13:18:48 PST
From: "NIELS KREISHOLT" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Trade

Hello there,

I have the CD re-issue of Jean Jacques Perrey: Moog Indigo for trade.

I am looking for the Henry Mancini tribute: Shots in the dark.

Please contact me off-line.


Niels Kreisholt
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 16:33:33 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) news: DVD-Audio format

BURBANK, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1999 MAR 3 (NB) -- By Matt Hines,Newsbytes. A
panel representing IBM Corp., Intel Corp., Matsushita Electric (Panasonic)
and Toshiba Corp. has created new content protection standards for the
Digital Versatile Disk (DVD)-Audio
platform, paving the way for its commercial introduction later this year.

DVD-Audio is a music industry format based on high capacity DVD technology
which claims to offer significant improvements over present audio formats.

The new framework uses watermark and encryption technologies to protect the
music made available on prerecorded DVD-Audio disc. The copy protected
DVD-Audio discs can be played only on licensed players, in a method similar
to that used for today's DVD-Video discs and players.

The guidelines provide consumers with the ability to make one digital copy,
per recorder, of the original audio content for personal use at a
sound-quality equal to CD-Audio or less. For example, a consumer who
purchases a DVD-Audio disc would be able to make one copy on a CD or
MiniDisc for their automobile or other personal music players. Content
owners will have the option of allowing additional copies at various levels
of quality, up to and including the full quality of the prerecorded
DVD-Audio original.

Information technology manufacturers including IBM Corp., Intel Corp.,
Matsushita Electric (Panasonic) and Toshiba Corp. have been developing a
content protection framework for DVD-Audio in conjunction with BMG, EMI,
Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group.

The collective organization issued a statement calling the public release of
the music industry-supported copyright protection guidelines the last major
step enabling DVD-Audio to be commercially introduced into the marketplace
this year. All of the involved technology companies are building new
applications for DVD-Audio and the group was interested in appeasing the
copyright concerns of the recording industry so that the new products are
accepted free of protest.

The recording industry has become increasingly concerned as new modes for
copying and distributing music over the Internet have popped up. Last week,
a group called the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) met in order to
begin establishing other standards for protecting copyrights online. Among
the issues being debated by that organization is the validity of the popular
but controversial MP3 digital music format.

IBM, Intel, Matsushita Electric and Toshiba have all actively contributed to
developing methods to protect digital entertainment content from
unauthorized copying including participation in the efforts to develop the
DVD Content Scrambling System (CSS).




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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:55:10 -0800
From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Fantastica JJ Perrey special on www.xtabay.com

Okay kiddies... For an encore I just uploaded one of my FAVORITE =
Fantastica programs: #21, the JJ Perrey special.  Perrey with Kingsley, =
Perrey with Chazam, Perrey with Breuer, Perrey with Perrey...and many =
MANY more... all cut together with neato bits from Forrest Ackerman  =
Editor of "Famous Monsters of Filmland" and "Spacemen." Also added are =
links to the Fantastica playlist archive which is a fun read all by =
itself. Look for it all under the "Streaming Audio" link.

I REALLY need reports about how the MP3 stream is working.. especially =
from users with slow modems. Also, if'n ya dig it, send Johan a note... =
there is a Mailto link on the page.

Also added to the main page is opportunity to subscribe to an occasional =
email update of the page. There will be a lot of changes soon, and I =
would like to be able to send off-list updates. Please make use of it.

Enjoy!

Ron



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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 18:27:41 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) news: DVD-Audio format

Yeah, yeah, copy-protect this, digital-watermark that. Big Warner Brother
is watching.

I just want to know what sampling rate they finally decided on.

::::::::::::::::::::

More importantly, goodbye to Dusty... thanks always for your art and soul.


m.ace  [e-mail]
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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 15:30:36 -0800
From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) news: DVD-Audio format

=20
> Yeah, yeah, copy-protect this, digital-watermark that. Big Warner =
Brother
> is watching.

Hehehehe... too true, brotha... It's kinda funny, really...  They are =
gonna pour bajillions into copy protection to try and save a relative =
pittance, and the College kids will copy them all to ANALOG, redigitize, =
and post 'em on the net....WITHOUT the copy management scheme.

Meanwhile legitimate consumers will have to put up with all the hassles =
of crippled copies. They are shooting at the birds to shoo away the =
squirrels.


Just my $.00000002 Million




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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 19:22:53 -0500
From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) SOUNDPROOF date??

At 12:59 PM +0000 3/2/99, Keith E. Lo Bue wrote:
>Any of you fine trivia-bent folks able to cough up a recording date for
>Ferrante and Teicher's 'SOUNDPROOF' LP?

1956

>How about 'BLAST OFF'?

1958

br cleve


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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 19:23:00 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ma(i)s Que Nada

> I've seen it both ways, Mais Que Nada and Mas Que Nada.

I just purchased a very good 'a cappella' version of the song 'Mas Que Nada'.

It is performed by a Singapore vocal group called Vocaluptuous, and is based on
the arrangement by Sergio Mendes.  The only non-vocal instrument is a small
rattle - all other instruments and percussion are simulated with the human
voice.  It all works rather well.

The CD is called 'aka a cappella' , and is the third in a series of compiled
songs from the annual Singapore a cappella festival.

Vern



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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 19:31:26 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Wives and Lovers

>   Are Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickinson still married?

A monument to this marriage can be found at the East Norwich Inn, a hotel
located on Long Island near New York.  This hotel used to be owned by Burt
Bacharach.

In the pseudo breakfast lounge area just off from the main desk, there is a
framed photograph showing a picture of Burt and Angie (and I can't remember who
else) sitting at a table.  The photograph was most likely taken in that very
same room.

This must have been in the 70's, because the background wall was made up of a
cheap looking plywood panels, similar to the style Calvin Klein used in his
controversial 'underage teen' ads a few years back.

I asked the clerk if Burt still owned the hotel, and she said he sold it
several years ago during one of his divorces.

Vern




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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 19:14:05 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Fwd: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER

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In a message dated 3/3/99 8:48:43 AM Central Standard Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< And it is exactly as I said.  It does not deal specifically with "Tiki
stuff"
 but continues where the Leopard Skin (which they now call "Fuzzy Skin")
 sampler leaves off.  Namely to drag newbies into ultimately sell Vol. 13 thru
 18 plus the "bonus" track samplings. >>

Well, not *exactly.* You were convinced it was the same sampler as in the
MusicHound Lounge book, which it is not, given the cuts from On the Rocks, the
Denny/Gleason/Baxter discs and the six bonus tracks. I don't think anyone ever
thought it was going to be truly "tiki."

As for the UL series being promoted as Grammy-winning, I don't have a problem
with it. A Grammy is a Grammy, as far as I'm concerned. I think consumers are
pretty astute to know something like UL wasn't up for Album of the Year.

- --Rod

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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 07:54:23 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER

In a message dated 3/3/99 9:43:07 AM EST, [e-mail] writes:

<< << >Another round of intoxicating sounds from the Grammy-award
  >winning series ULTRA-LOUNGE >>

 this continues to bug me.  the Grammy Award was for the packaging -- not the
 music, arrangements, etc.

 of course the packaging award in hollywood is probably treasured (if at not
at
 least winked at) in the back room meetings and discussions.

 "To Hell with the talent --  It's packaging my boys!!!!!" >>


That's right up there with my other favorite Grammy award - best liner notes!

Ashley


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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 11:15:46 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Atlas, Simmons, Springfield obits

                            *Jack Atlas
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jack Atlas, who made some of the earliest movie
trailers and started a company devoted to making the previews, died Friday.
He was 81.
    Atlas became a key figure in the trailer industry during the past 40 years
of their evolution and was an authority on their history.
    He began his career in MGM's publicity department and later worked
full-time creating previews. MGM was one of the first studios with a
full-time trailer production staff, and only a dozen companies in the world
produced trailers at the time Atlas started.
    Trailers grew in popularity with ``talkies,'' and over the years evolved
into a key marketing strategy for new film releases. Today, more than 100
companies make trailers.
    After working for MGM and then Columbia, he started his own production
company, Atlas Organization, in 1973, which made trailers for films and Ted
Turner's television enterprises.

                       *Shirley Satin Simmons
    NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Shirley Satin Simmons, who appeared in television
commercials and exercise videos with her son, fitness guru Richard Simmons,
died Sunday. She was 87.
    Mrs. Simmons, a New York City native, was a tap dancer when she met Leonard
D. Simmons Sr., a singer and master of ceremonies, at a theatrical boarding
house in Philadelphia in 1938, according to Leonard Simmons Jr.
    They married and performed under the stage names Bobby and Shirley Leonard.
They moved to New Orleans in 1939, where Mrs. Simmons tap danced in Bourbon
Street variety shows.
    After Leonard Jr. and Richard were born in 1946 and 1948, she abandoned
show business and went to work selling cosmetics. She retired in 1965.
    When Richard Simmons became well known through his exercise programs and
fitness videos, his mother often was with him. She appeared in commercials
with him and did an exercise video, ``The Silver Foxes,'' with the parents
of other celebrities, including
Sylvester Stallone's father and Dustin Hoffman's mother.
- ----------------------
Sr. Wences still going at 102. S'awright!
- -----------------------------------------
March 4, 1999
Dusty Springfield, 59, Pop Star of the 60's, Dies
By STEPHEN HOLDEN,NYTimes

     Dusty Springfield, the smoky-voiced English torch singer whose
interpretations of pop ballads were suffused with a heartbroken wistfulness,
died on Tuesday at her home in Henley-on-Thames, near Oxford, west of
London. She was 59.
     The cause was breast cancer, said her agent, Paul Fenn.
     Ms. Springfield had one of the longest recording careers of any
contemporary pop star, beginning in 1961 when she had the first of several
hits with her folk-pop trio, the Springfields, and ending with her 1995
album, "A Very Fine Love." She had most of her major hits in the 1960s when
she was considered the British equivalent of Dionne Warwick; she recorded
only intermittently after the early 1970s.
     Her career was briefly rejuvenated in 1987 when the English duo the Pet
Shop Boys (Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe), who were longtime fans, produced
her Top Five hit, "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" They also wrote and
produced "Nothing Has Been Proved," the dense, swirling post-disco theme
song that she sang on the soundtrack of the 1989 movie "Scandal," about the
Profumo sex scandal that had rocked the British government in the early 1960s.
     Ms. Springfield became an international pop star in 1964 with "I Only
Want to Be With You," a perky early-Beatles-style love song. Other major
'60s hits included "Wishin' and Hopin"' (1964), and "The Look of Love"
(1967), both written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, the team that supplied
Ms. Warwick with most of her early hits. Ms. Springfield's sultry rendition
of "The Look of Love," from the soundtrack of "Casino Royale," anticipated
the heavy-breathing eroticism of Donna Summer a decade later.
     Her best seller, "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (1966), was a
big-belting tear-jerker that reached No. 4 on Billboard's singles chart and
won her her first Grammy nomination. The country-soul ballad "Son of a
Preacher Man," her Top 10 hit from 1969, won her new respect and her second
Grammy nomination after being prominently featured in the 1994 movie "Pulp
Fiction."
     Dusty Springfield was born Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien on
April 16, 1939, in Hampstead, London. While attending British convent
schools, she discovered the music of Peggy Lee, whose intimate come-hither
style was a major formative influence.
     She got her professional start with an Andrews Sisters-style group
called the Lana Sisters, but quit to form her own folk-pop group, the
Springfields, with a friend, Tim Field, and her brother, Dion O'Brien, now
known as Tom Springfield, who is her only survivor. Promoted as a British
answer to Peter, Paul and Mary, the group had a popular British television
show and scored several English hits before breaking through in the United
States with a Top 20 single, "Silver Threads and Golden Needles."
     While visiting New York with the trio, Ms. Springfield recalled many
years later, she heard the Exciters' brash, aggressive song "Tell Him"
coming out of a Broadway record store and decided that she wanted to go pop.
     "I was deeply influenced by black singers from the early 1960s," she
said. "I liked everybody at Motown and most of the Stax artists. I really
wanted to be Mavis Staples. What they shared in common was a kind of
strength I didn't hear on English radio."
     Ms. Springfield subsequently broke up her folk group and signed as a
soloist with Philips Records. Her first single for the label, "I Only Want
to Be With You," established her new direction. Ms. Springfield, with her
teased beehive hairdo and eyes heavily blackened with mascara, was a 1960s
pop fashion icon. From 1964 and 1967, when she left Philips, 11 of her
singles hit the American pop charts.
     "Son of a Preacher Man," a song that Aretha Franklin had rejected but
later recorded, became Ms. Springfield's first single for Atlantic Records
and was featured on her Atlantic debut album, "Dusty in Memphis," which is
widely regarded as a pop masterpiece. To make the album, the Atlantic
producing team of Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin, who had brought
Ms. Franklin to her peak of popularity, took Ms. Springfield to Memphis to
record with a hot rhythm section.
     The record, which included "The Windmills of Your Mind," an early
collaboration of Michel Legrand with the lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman
that was written for the movie "The Thomas Crown Affair," was a perfect
blend of warm country-soul and New York pop sophistication. For many
singers, including Melissa Manchester, Linda Ronstadt and k.d. lang, it
provided a blueprint for stylistically adventurous vocal showcases.
      But "Dusty in Memphis" was not a big hit, reaching only No. 99 on
Billboard's album chart. In 1970 Atlantic released her much-admired
rhythm-and-blues-flavored album, "A Brand New Me." Recorded in Philadelphia,
the album fared no better than its forerunner.
      Thereafter Ms. Springfield, who was awarded the Order of the British
Empire in January, recorded only sporadically. Although her subsequent
American albums -- "Cameo" (1973, ABC-Dunhill), "It Begins Again" (1978,
United Artists), "Living Without Your Love" (1979, United Artists), "White
Heat" (1982, Casablanca) and "A Very Fine Love" (1995, Columbia) -- found
her voice as full and compelling as ever, the material and production rarely
matched the singing.
     After the 1970s she led a peripatetic existence, living sometimes in
Los Angeles, at other times in the Netherlands and Britain. In 1997 Mercury
Records released the 3-CD, 77-song "Dusty Springfield Anthology Collection."
Last month Rhino Records released an expanded version of "Dusty in Memphis."
http://elvispelvis.com/dustyspringfield.htm
http://www.cjnetworks.com/~roryb/outta.html








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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 11:15:49 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) news: DVD-Audio format

At 06:27 PM 3/3/99 -0500, m.ace wrote:
>I just want to know what sampling rate they finally decided on.

Here's excerpts from a Press Release that answers some questions:

OneClick DVD and DVD AV Workstation Enable Seamless DVD-Audio Production
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    NOVATO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 1999--Sonic Solutions
announced today the Phase 1 release of the world's first complete DVD-Audio
authoring systems, Sonic DVD AV Workstation and OneClick DVD(TM).
    DVD-Audio is the next-generation consumer audio format that extends the
wildly successful DVD-Video format into a very high-quality musical
experience. DVD-Audio enhances consumer audio with 24-bit, uncompressed
digital audio at high-resolution sampling rates of 96kHz and 192kHz, and
surrounds listeners with the realism of
multi-channel High-Density Audio(TM).
    It also provides an interactive interface for the listener, such as
real-time text, on-screen slide shows graphics, menus, and integrated
digital video.
     About DVD-Audio
    Designed to store 4.7 Gigabytes of content -- seven times CD capacity --
on a single-layer, single-sided disc, DVD-Audio enables dramatically greater
sound quality and provides a multitude of new features, such as
multi-channel High-Density Audio, menu navigation, direct Web connections
and added-value content such as visual display of lyrics, artist commentary
and audio/video discography.
    DVD-Audio discs will be playable on many new DVD-Video players as well
as on specialized DVD-Audio players. Virtually all DVD player manufacturers
intend to support the new format.
    The DVD-Audio format is supported by the industry's leading audio
companies, electronics manufacturers, content developers and computer
manufacturers including Intel, LG Electronics, MEI, NEC, Nippon Columbia,
Pioneer, Sanyo, Sonic Solutions, Time Warner, Toshiba, Victor Company of
Japan, Yamaha and many others.
    About Sonic Solutions
 Sonic Solutions can be contacted on the Web at: http://www.sonic.com.




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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 10:32:52 -0500
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Subject: (exotica) Hey, NY!

I've been having e-mail problems, so I hope this isn't a
duplicate...but...are there any  safe, clean and cheap places to stay in
NYC?  You can reply directly to the venerable Jane Fondle
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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:29:07 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER

In a message dated 03/03/99 7:10:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, RLott writes:

 << Well, not *exactly.* >>

 As I said:  "(to) not deal specifically with "Tiki stuff"
  but (to) continue where the Leopard Skin (which they now call "Fuzzy Skin")
  sampler leaves off."

 It will be interesting to see what cuts are on the Tiki one.  I suspect that
it will be the same as the ones on the Hound one with the Rocks, "bonus" ones
added.  Time will tell on this.  I suspect they will add a couple/few more
cuts and repackage.

 My main argument was that it would not be "new" music not already available
on currently released UL CD's.  Maybe my prediction was not 100% Dionne
Warwick correct so I apologize for using the word "exactly".  Substitute
"mainly" or "mostly" if we are being so picky.

 Robert


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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 11:33:43 -0600
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Dion McGregor on WNYC

>DION McGREGOR  "Dion McGregor Dreams Again"  (Tzadik)  cd  15.98
>   How long would last if your roommate screamed his dreams out loud every
>night? Would you have the foresight to capture these disturbances on tape?
>Lucky for us back in the 1960's Dion McGregor's roommate stuck it out long
>enough to provide us with this aural document of one man's nocturnal pain
>and pleasure. Dion's dreams range from queeny dress up parties to drooling
>descriptions of large breasted women and cunnilingus contests. Equally
>disturbing as it is riveting.

Note from Phil Milstein:
Just wanted to let you know about an upcoming radio show that will focus on
Dion McGregor, and on the new CD "Dion McGregor Dreams Again."

The show will be an episode (or perhaps a portion of an episode, I'm not
sure) of David Garland's "Spinning On Air." The program is on WNYC, 93.9 FM,
with the McGregor episode airing Friday, March 12 at 10pm. David interviewed
both Phil Milstein and Michael Barr, the man who recorded the McGregor
tapes, and will also hopefully include an excellent outtake entitled "Tenses."

http://www.channel1.com/users/fxxm/dion/index.htm




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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:35:31 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) ULTRA LOUNGE -- TIKI SAMPLER

In a message dated 03/04/99 4:26:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, an exoticat
writes:

<< While we're on the subject of UL Sampler packaging.  Does anyone know how
 many different versions of the Sampler there are?  I own the one with White
 text outlined in Gold on a Purple background.  I've seen at least two other
 variations of the glossy cover plaque but can't recall them at the moment.
 Please help, I'm considering getting them all!  Also, mine came with an
 Ultra Lounge drink coaster inside, is it possible there are variations of
 these as well? >>


And to repeat:  "I'm considering getting them all! "

It is the same CD in each sampler.  I say this carefully, so the point is to
collect different packages of the same sampler?  I am totally lost on this but
I am sure the Capitol Packaging department know what they are doing.

I musta missed the boat because I only want/need the one Sampler I have (and I
am not sure what the color of the logo is).

Robert

P.S.  They sent me a set of six coasters (all of different colors!!!!) when I
returned the little survey card.


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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 12:50:06 -0500
From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Martinis With Mancini Playlist. 3/4/99

"Martinis With Mancini" broadcasting Thursday's  from 6-9 AM. WJUL 91.5 in
Lowell Massachusetts.

http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Booth/8007/

The playlist: (Abbreviated 2 hour program due to technical difficulties.)

Fugue (Vivaldi. arr.:J.S.Bach), Swingle Singers (LP)
You'd Be Surprised, Marilyn Monroe
O Morro Nao Tem Vez, Stan Getz
If I Were A Bell, Miles Davis
Siboney, Xavier Cugat (LP)
He's A Tramp, Peggy Lee (From Lady And The Tramp)
Opus 1, Gene Krupa, Anita O'Day, Roy Eldridge
Casino Royal, OST Casino Royal, Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass (LP)
The Look Of Love, OST Casino Royal, Dusty Springfield (LP)
Sooner Of Later, M.V.L. Ciccone
Mercy Mercy Mercy, Cannonball Adderly and his Sextet (LP)
Mack The Knife, Patty Page (LP)
Caravan, Les Brown and His Band of Renown (LP)

Rat Pack Six Pack:
I've Got a Lot of Livin' To Do, Sammy Davis JR.
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone, Sammy Davis JR.
Love Me My Love, Dean Martin
Ain't That A Kick In the Head, Dean Martin
You Make Me Feel So Young, Frank Sinatra

I Won't Dance, Nnenna Freelon
Get Otta My Girl, The Wonderful World Of Joey
Vertigogo, OST Four Rooms/ Combustible Edison
That Old Black Magic, Esquivel!
Slow Boat To China, Holly Cole Trio
Alice In Wonderland, Adam Markowicz
Go Ahead And Burn, 4 Piece Suit
Something Wonderful, Nina Simone
Angel Eyes, Frank Sinatra (The last of the 6 pack that rolled away)
Never Never Land, Madeline Eastman




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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 15:56:23 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Fantastica MP3 file

At 09:53 -0700 99/03/03, Charles Moseley wrote:

>Johan Dada Vis - that MP3 file is superb, where are the rest?

    thanx for the suppport!

    the credits for the MP3 file itself go to Ron; he's the man
    that - hopefully -  will put up more episodes (he has a dozen
    of them on MiniDisk, and I've got many more here at home, so
    ... to be continued.

        Johan


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